The Start-up of You – Book Review
The basic premise of thesis book is the following: the entrepreneurial mindset and attitude are essential for anyone’s career […]
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives – Book Review
Ever since its inception, and in many cases even before it became incorporated, Google has been referred to mainly […]
Dirt Devil BD10045RED AccuCharge 15.6 Volt Hand Vac
When I got interested in a small vacuum cleaner for my car and for odd jobs around my workshop and my house, I first considered taking a look at Dyson’s compact vacuum. We’ve used the “standard” Dyson vacuum cleaner […]
Winegard Company FL-5000 FlatWave HDTV Indoor Digital Flat Antenna
Last summer I bought a nice new Toshiba flat screen TV. I only use it to watch movies, either on my Blu-ray player or via Netflix the ever-escalating cable subscription costs have finally made me pull the plug on […]
The Animal Kingdom: A Very Short Introduction
Animals are one of the most familiar and ubiquitous mental categories. They surround all of us, whether they are minuscule flies or oversize pets, and the human history would have been unimaginably different without our oversize reliance on animals. […]
Jabra STREET2 Bluetooth Stereo Headset
Over the past few years I’ve become a bit of an expert on Bluetooth wireless headsets. They seem an almost ideal way of listening to music or making the phone calls. The Bluetooth headsets are ideal for workouts: compact, […]
Android Camera
According to an article on Engadget, Samsung is working on an Android-based camera. This in and of itself is not that much of a shocker; I’ve been clamoring for such a gadget for years. Having each camera with its own […]
Publishing my PhD Thesis
Getting a Ph.D. can be a very protracted and frustrating experience. It takes years to do your work, years to write up your Ph.D. theses, and oftentimes years of banging your adviser’s and Ph.D. committee’s heads against some blunt inanimate […]
Einstein explains the photoelectric effect
A couple of years ago I was playing with CrazyTalk software (something that I like to do a lot) and had made the above video in which Einstein purportedly explains the photoelectric effect. I had Einstein speaking in German, […]
The New iPad
As I had already mentioned in one of my previous posts, this Wednesday we were treated to another Apple product unveiling event. And as I and most Apple prognosticators had predicted, the event brought us a new iPad with retina […]